New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has recovered a detailed protest calendar issued and signed by Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani , pointing to the role of separatists in organising events in coordination with handlers in Pakistan that led to widespread violence in Kashmir.

The National Investigation Agency has found documents that list dates and when protests and other activities related to civil unrest was to be carried out in the Valley following the shooting of Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani.

The 'protest calendar', recovered from Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Ahmad Shah 'Funtoosh', establishes how systematically Hurriyat has stoked the violence that resulted in hundreds of injuries and several deaths in clashes between stone pelters and security forces.

The protests, intended to fan radicalism, involved local clerics and separatist cadres as well as activists of opposition parties and were funded by Hurriyat in concert with Pakistani agencies, the NIA investigations indicate.

For example, on August 6, 2016, Geelani called for assembling and occupying local chowks and centres in the vicinity of mohallas, villages and localities and playing of Islamic and azaditaranas (songs) in masjids.

The protest calendar recovered by NIA marked the activities for August 2016, the period when Jammu & Kashmir saw maximum number of protests and stone pelting incidents following the killing of Burhan Wani.

On August 8, the activity mentioned was to block all roads towards and around the civil secretariat in Srinagar and tehsil offices and to ensure that no employee was able to join duty.

Geelani 'directed' that "deputy commissioners have to desist from calling employees over phone and pressurising them to resume duty".

The calendar called for a 'women's protest' on August 9 apart from playing azadi songs in masjids.

On August 11, the activity mentioned was to issue a poster letter asking all pro-India politicians and their workers including panchs and sarpanchs to resign from their posts.

It was to be posted on the gates of their homes. NIA sources said that this showed that trouble-makers in the Valley had a list of all employees in government departments.